Brazilian mother and daughter create seven-bedroom home from more than 8,000 glass bottles

When people go on a trip, they make sure to carry back a suitcase full of memories. From photos to souvenirs, they invest in numerous things to ensure that they have something to remember the good times by. But one thing they always end up forgetting is to carry back the waste and deposit it correctly in the dustbins. From bottles to food wrappers, numerous pieces of evidence of human adventure collect on beaches and in forests for years, until they are all you can see on the land.On the Brazilian island of Itamaraca, one house is making a simple question that is hard to ignore. The waste tourists leave behind on a beach can either accumulate on the sand for years, or become useful in the wall or roof of a home. This is a step Edna Dantas and her daughter Maria Gabreilly Dantas took.The mother-daughter duo created Casa de Sal (The Salt House), a seven-room dwelling with the help of recycled wood, pallets, toothpaste tubes, and yes, more than 8,000 glass bottles. The home is located in Pernambuco, where beaches, biodiversity, rising tourism, and discarded waste paint a contrasting but realistic picture.A beach problem, a home solutionFor their home, they assembled the bottles into g...